Anita Orientar

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Anita Orientar (born Anita Orienter January 8, 1896 in Bahia , Brazil ; died 1994 in Zangberg , Bavaria ) was a German painter, art historian and writer.

Life

Anita Orienter's father was a diamond dealer from Romania, her mother was from Berlin. In 1897 the mother and daughter moved from Brazil to Paris and then in 1900 with a new partner to Berlin, where Orienter attended school and graduated from high school in 1914. She studied art history, literature and philosophy in Berlin, Munich and Halle and received her doctorate in Halle under Kurt Gerstenberg in 1921 with the dissertation attempt on a history of mental expression in painting . She then gave private lessons in art history for two years and took painting lessons herself. She then switched to an artistic activity and was also able to sell her paintings and had contacts to galleries at home and abroad. From 1926 she stayed in Paris and copied paintings in the Louvre , in 1928 she moved to Italy on Lake Garda . Orientar converted from Judaism to Catholicism and wrote religious writings. She received an order to paint the panels of a pilgrimage route on Lake Garda.

Due to the racial laws in Italy and the racial persecution in Germany , Orientar emigrated to Brazil with his mother and stepfather in 1939, where she kept the family afloat by selling painted “ready-made goods”. In 1948 she moved to New York City, where she only had a marginal existence with odd jobs as an art teacher and language teacher. In 1963 Orientar moved back to Germany, where she applied for a restitution pension. With the regular pension, she was able to set up a painting studio in Vence in Provence . From 1978 she lived in the St. Josef Monastery in Zangberg in Bavaria, where she died in 1994.

Fonts (selection)

Exhibition catalog in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (1942)
  • Anita Orienter: The mental expression in old German painting: an attempt at evolutionary history . Munich: Delphin, 1921 ( digitized version )
    • The Changes in Expression in Old German Art . 1969
  • One pilgrim only . Leipzig: St. Benno-Verlag, 1967 (1966)
    • Un Pèlerinage judéo-chrétien . 1968
  • Search for God - God encounter. The world wants to convert an unfit . Maximilian Kolbe-Verlag, 1980
  • In the light of Easter morning. Lent contemplations . 1981
  • Come to my present! 1993

Exhibitions

  • 1925 - Berlin, Heller Gallery, Kurfürstendamm
  • 1942, 1944 - Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
  • 1946 - Rio de Janeiro, Palace Hotel
  • 1950 - New York, Public Library , 42nd Street
  • 1962 - New York, Duncan Galleries
  • 1963 - Munich, Gurlitt
  • 1966 - Nice, Salle Saint-Thomas

literature

  • Orientar, Anita , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical manual of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , p. 464

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information about Romania is in Wendland, but no further details. Orienter's father could also have come from a part of Austria-Hungary that became Romanian after 1918, that's unclear here.
  2. ↑ 50 Anos de Exposições no MNBA (1937–1987). Listagem. In: phlnet.net. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, accessed April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Orientar, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orienter, Anita (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bahia
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Zangberg